old-man

Definitions

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n. Alternative spelling of oldman.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The southernwood, Artemisia Abrotanum.

n. In mech., a drill-clamp; an iron strap or frame which can be clamped to or caught on a piece it is desired to drill, to furnish an abutment or brace to resist the driving or feeding pressure which forces the drill-point to its work.

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Examples

His face was wrinkled, his lips turned toward the jawline in a perpetual old-man frown.

Tyler's unabashed meathead is contrasted by the enthusiastic nerd next door, the victim of his madness, Private First Class Colin Carney, played by Zach McCoy, who provides intellectual respite from the locker room banter of Tyler and the stoic "old-man," Private First Class Chester Gullette, Lowell Byers, held back as a private, as he tersely explains, for "political reasons."